#odd couple

[nemfrog]

Bananas and Bacon. Guaranteed to start conversation.

The new banana. 1931. Back cover.

Internet Archive

[newyorkthegoldenage]

Marilyn Monroe and Truman Capote dancing at El Morocco on March 24, 1955. Capote described an encounter with Marilyn in his 1980 book Music for Chameleons.

Photo: Bettmann Archive/Daily Mail

[scribledon]

That one friend that’s too Odd Couple

[trentanyl]

This was one of the videos in Mariqueen's old YouTube favourites... pre-dating, I'm assuming too.

Trent is odd

// @neeuqiram is her YouTube btw, it's still up hehehe her blogs are so cute

[goldenwolfen]

Odd couples are so cute, don't you think? <3

"Sweet Kisses" Watercolor and colored pencil. Circa 2019.

Prints available here

[bitter69uk]

Released in American cinemas on this day (15 January 1988): Rent-A-Cop. When Burt Reynolds and Liza Minnelli were originally teamed for the 1975 film Lucky Lady, the result was a notorious and expensive mega-flop. So, I could kiss on the lips whoever approved reuniting the duo for crime thriller / romantic comedy hybrid Rent-A-Cop, the acme of gleefully enjoyable 1980s schlock. When a police sting operation goes horrifically wrong, gruff tough-as-nails Detective Tony Church (Reynolds) joins forces with kooky free-spirited escort girl Della Roberts (Minnelli). Della, you see, witnessed the carnage and is the sole person who can identify masked gunman Adam "Dancer" Booth (played by James Remar. Sex and the City fans will recognise him as Samantha Jones’ on-off boyfriend Richard Wright). But not if Dancer kills her first! Or, as Rent-A-Cop’s tagline summarizes “There’s a killer on the loose and the lady is the target.” Inevitably – after some wacky hi-jinks - the sparring odd couple of Tony and Della gradually fall in love. Aside from a cameo appearance in The Muppets Take Manhattan, this represents Minnelli’s first screen role after a gap of five years following her highly publicized stint at the Betty Ford Clinic. Awash in sequins and mugging furiously, this is certainly Minnelli at her most “Minnelli”. Della’s sex work is depicted as a wholesome lark (she offers her johns the gamut of “his mommy, Little Bo-Peep, or Helga the Bitch Goddess”. It should be noted that the same year, Minnelli’s peer Barbra Streisand also unconvincingly played a prostitute in Nuts). Anyway, Rent-A-Cop abounds with “what-the-fuck?” moments: Dancer inexplicably performs a sweaty homoerotic Flashdance-style number in front of a mirror. A bewigged drag queen at a nightclub accosts Della with “I love your muff!” Guest star Dionne Warwick portrays Della’s madam. Weirdly, Rent-A-Cop is set in Chicago, and exteriors were shot there but the interiors were filmed in Rome’s Cinecittà Studios. Reynolds and Minnelli were both nominated for the 1988 Golden Raspberry Awards for Worst Actor and Worst Actress (Minnelli won).

[spookedthespian]

Happy Pride to whatever the fuck they had going on.

[twilightofthesandwiches]

Which Movie of 1968’s Highest-Grossing Movies is Your Favorite?

Funny Girl

2001: A Space Odyssey

The Odd Couple

Bullitt

Oliver!

Planet of the Apes

Rosemary's Baby

Romeo and Juliet

Yours, Mine and Ours

The Lion in Winter

Voting ended onFeb 4